📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- Mental health stereotypes are not just limited to previous generations, but are also reflected in the attitudes of young people.
- She was three years old when her parents got separated. Spent her childhood in a joint family environment where, according to her brother Um.
- Umar Mushtaq tells DW, “It was not customary in our family to send girls to school. Qari Sahib used to come home and read Quran. If my siste.
Mental health stereotypes are not just limited to previous generations, but are also reflected in the attitudes of young people.
Umar Mushtaq tells DW, “It was not customary in our family to send girls to school. Qari Sahib used to come home and read Quran. If my sister had difficulty in understanding the lesson, she would be beaten, she would wake up at night and cry, and my father would shout in anger.
Instead of taking her to a psychiatrist, Zainab was given amulets. In the eyes of the family, the only problem was that he was 'crazy', 'little brain'.
Today Umar Mushtaq regrets this behavior. "I am educated and can understand the beatings, hatred and deprivation of a mother that my sister faced as a child," he says. I feel guilty that I never talked about his psychotherapy. Despite the desire, I could not say at home, because everyone thought that she was like this from the beginning, she showed her feet to the poor, and what else could happen.
